I'm pursuing the hypothesis that the Baecker family in Bindersbach and Annweiler, Bavaria is the family from where my great grandfather Andrew Alfred Baker came. His father was Michael Baker, aka Baecker.
The pieces have been coming together at both Andrew's side and the Baecker side. The link is elusive though.
A recent birth record yielded the fact that Jacob Albert, Andrew's stepfather, was born in Homburg, Germany. The Cleveland, Ohio-bound Albert family started in Homburg. Jacob Albert married my great great grandmother Barbara Fries circa 1877 in Germany.
Homburg is less than an hour drive from Annweiler and Bindersbach.
That proximity is interesting to me as it gives me increasing confidence that I'm on the right track with the Baecker family ancestors that I'm showing in those towns. I've found numerous records for those Baeckers and can't match them to anyone else on ancestry.com, but also can't be totally confident they are "my" Bakers.
Proximity isn't proof, but it is a confidence builder.
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